UKG Adds Chime Workplace to Its Marketplace, Bringing No-Cost Financial Wellness Inside the HR Stack
UKG has made Chime Workplace available in the UKG Marketplace, integrating Chime's no-cost financial wellness suite with the UKG Workforce Operating Platform. For HR teams, this means one place to deliver earned wage access, savings, credit-building, and education-without extra apps to manage.
Maxwell Group, a senior living provider and UKG customer, has adopted Chime Workplace and ended a legacy earned wage access tool. The move centers on no-fee access to earned pay, giving employees a way to handle bills and unexpected expenses without adding cost or friction.
What HR Gets Out of This Integration
- One app with multiple financial tools: financial education, high-yield savings, and credit-building.
- Higher employee adoption and engagement that supports financial progress, retention, and productivity.
- Actionable data on program efficacy and workforce financial health, including savings growth and credit trends.
- A compliance-minded model aligned with regulatory expectations, offering more confidence for leadership.
Financial stress quietly drains performance. Chime Workplace reports employees lose more than six hours each week to money worries. Consolidating key tools in a single app helps reduce fragmentation, increase participation, and make benefits easier to use.
"Supporting the financial well-being of our team is essential to delivering on our guiding principle, People First Always. With Chime, we're able to enhance our overall benefits with meaningful financial tools that meet our team members where they are, giving them access to their pay now, and greater confidence to achieve their future financial goals," said Nerissa Nelson, Maxwell Group's VP of human resources.
Chime is already used by millions, with 97% saying it helped their financial progress. Embedding that experience directly into the UKG ecosystem lowers the barrier for employees to actually use the benefits you're funding.
Practical Steps for UKG Customers
- Enable the Chime Workplace integration through the UKG Marketplace and confirm permissions with payroll, HRIS, and finance.
- Sunset overlapping earned wage access tools to avoid confusion and mixed messaging.
- Launch with a simple, repeatable communication plan: how to enroll, how earned pay works, and where to find savings and credit features.
- Track adoption and outcomes monthly: enrollment rate, active usage, early wage draws, savings growth, and credit improvements.
- Set clear guardrails for compliance and employee support, including FAQs and escalation paths.
Why This Matters for HR Metrics
Better access to earned pay and savings can reduce absenteeism, turnover, and manager time on pay-related issues. The integrated data gives HR visibility into financial health trends, making it easier to justify benefits spend and adjust programs based on results.
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